C# Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

C#
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring C# skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 99 64
Rank change year-on-year -36 -35 -19
Contract jobs citing C# 340 354 657
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.88% 2.36% 3.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.35% 8.79% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 199 446
10th Percentile £325 £347 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £567 £592
90th Percentile £625 £627 £684
UK median daily rate £502 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -6.21% -6.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 57
10th Percentile £58.10 £27.00 £56.30
25th Percentile - £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.00 - £66.75
90th Percentile £70.00 - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -0.76%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,623 4,026 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.61% 26.85% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,989 2,424 3,440
10th Percentile £315 £336 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £570 £580 £600
90th Percentile £644 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 197 318
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.25 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -1.93% -
75th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C# relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

C# job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

C#
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing C#.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing C#

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing C#.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing C#

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -25 93 £465 -9.27% 342
North of England -44 78 £450 -7.22% 252
East of England -8 52 £525 +6.60% 136
Yorkshire -19 46 £463 -18.43% 82
Midlands -58 38 £518 +4.55% 176
Scotland -5 32 £513 +20.59% 79
North West -26 30 £425 -0.87% 130
East Midlands -8 23 £550 +25.00% 74
South West -19 20 £488 -5.80% 118
Wales +18 16 £525 +150.14% 30
West Midlands -56 15 £480 -14.51% 96
Northern Ireland +4 11 - - 12
North East -14 2 £563 +56.25% 42
C#
UK

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.53%) CMS
2 10 (2.94%) Confluence
3 6 (1.76%) Headless CMS
3 6 (1.76%) Sitecore CMS
3 6 (1.76%) Umbraco
4 5 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.18%) IIS
6 2 (0.59%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.29%) Apache
7 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.29%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (42.94%) Azure
2 83 (24.41%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (11.18%) AWS
4 37 (10.88%) Power Platform
5 36 (10.59%) GitHub
5 36 (10.59%) Serverless
6 31 (9.12%) Dynamics 365
7 27 (7.94%) Azure Functions
8 25 (7.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 21 (6.18%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (5.88%) Power Automate
10 20 (5.88%) PowerApps
11 15 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (4.12%) Azure AKS
13 13 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.53%) SaaS
15 10 (2.94%) Azure API Management
16 9 (2.65%) GCP
16 9 (2.65%) npm
17 8 (2.35%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.59%) TCP/IP
2 18 (5.29%) Ethernet
3 7 (2.06%) HTTP
4 5 (1.47%) NFC
4 5 (1.47%) PPP
5 4 (1.18%) Firewall
6 2 (0.59%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) DHCP
7 1 (0.29%) DNS
7 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.29%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) LAN
7 1 (0.29%) VPN
7 1 (0.29%) WAN
7 1 (0.29%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.59%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.59%) Relational Database
3 17 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.00%) Power BI
4 7 (2.06%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.88%) MSDE
6 3 (0.88%) MySQL
6 3 (0.88%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.59%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.59%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.29%) GIS
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.29%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (17.65%) Git
2 47 (13.82%) Visual Studio
3 45 (13.24%) JIRA
4 43 (12.65%) Jenkins
5 33 (9.71%) Selenium
6 24 (7.06%) Eclipse
7 17 (5.00%) Bitbucket
8 14 (4.12%) GitLab
9 13 (3.82%) Artifactory
10 12 (3.53%) Visual Studio Code
11 11 (3.24%) IntelliJ
12 10 (2.94%) Cucumber
12 10 (2.94%) SpecFlow
13 9 (2.65%) JMeter
13 9 (2.65%) PyCharm
14 8 (2.35%) MSTest
14 8 (2.35%) Postman
15 6 (1.76%) NUnit
16 5 (1.47%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.47%) Valgrind
General
1 89 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.12%) Finance
3 43 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.59%) Military
6 18 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.82%) Aerospace
8 11 (3.24%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.06%) Banking
9 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.47%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.18%) Law
11 4 (1.18%) Marketing
11 4 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.88%) Automotive
12 3 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.88%) Local Government
13 2 (0.59%) Billing
13 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 149 (43.82%) Developer
2 83 (24.41%) Software Engineer
3 49 (14.41%) Senior
4 43 (12.65%) .NET Developer
5 32 (9.41%) C# Developer
5 32 (9.41%) C++ Software Engineer
6 27 (7.94%) C# Software Engineer
7 23 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (6.76%) Senior Developer
8 18 (5.29%) Tester
9 17 (5.00%) Automation Tester
10 16 (4.71%) Azure Developer
10 16 (4.71%) Lead
11 14 (4.12%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 13 (3.82%) .NET Software Engineer
12 13 (3.82%) C# .NET Developer
12 13 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (3.24%) Applications Developer
13 11 (3.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (52.65%) .NET
2 51 (15.00%) React
3 50 (14.71%) RESTful
4 49 (14.41%) HTML
5 46 (13.53%) REST
6 42 (12.35%) .NET Framework
7 41 (12.06%) CSS
8 38 (11.18%) .NET Core
9 37 (10.88%) Web Services
10 36 (10.59%) AngularJS
11 34 (10.00%) Node.js
12 25 (7.35%) ASP.NET
13 20 (5.88%) JSON
13 20 (5.88%) XML
14 16 (4.71%) SOAP
14 16 (4.71%) Vue
15 15 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web API
16 14 (4.12%) Blazor
16 14 (4.12%) Middleware
17 13 (3.82%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.12%) Mobile App
2 12 (3.53%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.24%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.35%) FPGA
5 8 (2.35%) NHS
6 7 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.06%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.76%) CAN bus
7 6 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.76%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.76%) PCIe
7 6 (1.76%) State Machine
8 5 (1.47%) IoT
8 5 (1.47%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 65 (19.12%) Linux
1 65 (19.12%) Windows
2 9 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.06%) Android
4 5 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.88%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (49.12%) Agile
2 148 (43.53%) DevOps
3 144 (42.35%) CI/CD
4 91 (26.76%) Software Engineering
5 61 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (17.94%) Test Automation
6 54 (15.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (13.82%) Containerisation
7 47 (13.82%) Microservices
8 45 (13.24%) TDD
8 45 (13.24%) Unit Testing
9 42 (12.35%) Validation
10 37 (10.88%) Continuous Integration
11 36 (10.59%) SDLC
12 29 (8.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (8.24%) Clean Code
13 28 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (7.94%) AI
14 27 (7.94%) Design Patterns
15 25 (7.35%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 136 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 104 (30.59%) SQL
3 79 (23.24%) Python
4 62 (18.24%) C++
5 59 (17.35%) Java
6 40 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 33 (9.71%) PowerShell
8 17 (5.00%) PHP
9 12 (3.53%) Bash
10 10 (2.94%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.35%) Bicep
11 8 (2.35%) C
12 7 (2.06%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.76%) Embedded C++
13 6 (1.76%) Groovy
14 5 (1.47%) Ada
15 4 (1.18%) Delphi
16 3 (0.88%) VB
17 2 (0.59%) Assembly Language
17 2 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 53 (15.59%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.06%) Degree
4 9 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.76%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.29%) HND
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.76%) QA
2 9 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.76%) HL7
3 6 (1.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.59%) GDPR
7 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) DICOM
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) PSD2
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 64 (18.82%) Docker
2 8 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.06%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 39 (11.47%) Terraform
3 23 (6.76%) Ansible
4 2 (0.59%) Grafana
4 2 (0.59%) Istio
4 2 (0.59%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.29%) Rancher
5 1 (0.29%) Rsyslog
5 1 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 85 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.88%) Oracle
3 8 (2.35%) GoldenSource
4 7 (2.06%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.06%) SAP
4 7 (2.06%) Sitecore
5 6 (1.76%) Brio
6 5 (1.47%) Adobe
6 5 (1.47%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.88%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.88%) Google
7 3 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.88%) VMware
8 2 (0.59%) Databricks
8 2 (0.59%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.59%) Siemens
9 1 (0.29%) IBM
9 1 (0.29%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.29%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.29%) Virgin Media